Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there.

Franklin P. Jones (1887-1929) American businessman

Where words fail, music speaks.

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) writer renown for his fairy tales

Everything is created from moment to moment, always new. Like fireworks, this universe is a celebration and you are the spectator contemplating the eternal Fourth of July of your absolute splendor.

M. Scott Peck (1936-2005) psychiatrist and best-selling author

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year - it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.

author unknown

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) essayist, poet and philosopher

The wild bee reels from bough to boughWith his furry coat and his gauzy wing.Now in a lily-cup, and nowSetting a jacinth bell a-swing,In his wandering

summer is also the time of traveling, the mouse is hitting the road for a few days - no new posts until next week!

andrea of the corrs and bono singing summer wine ..... summer wine was written by lee hazelwood in 1966 and hit the charts in 1967 with this version - I really don't know which rendition I like better?

save the fish!

cost of the war

join the movement for non-violence

click on button to take the vow

unless noted otherwise, all photos on the mouse are taken by me, kim yanoshik. you are welcome to use them if credit is given. if you seek to make a profit, you need to first ask permission to use the photo; then you are obliged to share that profit with yours truly, otherwise karma will catch up with you!